[Framers] Who's in charge?

[Dennis Brunnenmeyer]

Hi everyone...

I must admit that I'm overwhelmed by the number of kind and helpful  
responses I've received, especially considering my expertise at the time 
of my first posting. I'm relearning the application, having once 
produced a very nice User's Manual in or around 2007. It's been an 
arduous climb back up the learning curve after 9 years, but thanks to 
all of you, I'm feeling pretty good about it.

I don't have the means, unfortunately, to upgrade to FrameMaker 8, 9 or 
beyond.  That said, I have no need to backsave anything from FM 7.2, so 
that isn't an issue. I am curious, though, about the statement below 
that UTF-8 can cause some problems in 7.2 other than with backsaving.  
Are there issues with this within a FM 7.2-only  environment?

Also, since everyone has unanimously suggested that one should avoid 
using the Formatting Bar and even the shortcuts via key strokes, I 
assume that means that paragraph tabs should only be configured in the 
Paragraph Designer.

Thanks again for your valuable suggestions.

Dennis....
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On 11/30/2016 11:25 AM, Craig Ede wrote:
> I believe 7.2 went to UTF 8 encoding which can cause some problems, especially with backsaving.
>
> A translation company I worked for ran into problems trying to save later files back to 7.0 mif because certain characters (like bullets used in list, I see to remember) would be messed up by that.
>
> Craig
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> The differences between unstructured FrameMaker 6 and 7.2 were fairly
> minor. The main thing I recall was the addition of multi-level undo.
>
> The big changes were in FM8, which switched from proprietary character
> sets to Unicode, and FM9, which layered on the nonstandard UI (though
> as you drill down some of the dialog boxes are unchanged from FM5 or
> even earlier).
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Caroline Tabach <Caroline at radcom.com> wrote:
>> ... http://www.peachpit.com/articles/index.aspx?st=60562
> Adobe FrameMaker Articles | Peachpit<http://www.peachpit.com/articles/index.aspx?st=60562>
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> FrameMaker 7 provides you with user-friendly, powerful layout features and the ability to create structured documents. Lisa Jahred tells you what's new ...
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>> These cover paragraph, table and character formats and more,
>> Even though they say Frame 6, the principle is the same
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